March 30, 2017 | 32 min.

Morning Instructions: Vedanā (feeling tone)

Will Kabat-Zinn

Practice mindfulness of feeling tone (vedanā), building on the basic instructions of mindfulness of body and breath.

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March 30, 2017 | 32 min.

Morning Instructions: Vedanā (feeling tone)

Will Kabat-Zinn

Practice mindfulness of feeling tone (vedanā), building on the basic instructions of mindfulness of body and breath.

March 29, 2017 | 32 min.

Morning Instructions: Emotions

Will Kabat-Zinn

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March 29, 2017 | 32 min.

Morning Instructions: Emotions

Will Kabat-Zinn

January 9, 2015 | 61 min.

Impermanence, Instability, and Selflessness

Will Kabat-Zinn

One characteristic of all phenomena in this conditioned world we live in is that they are in a state of flux and change. No thing, given its impermanence, can provide a lasting resting place, refuge, or sense of peace and fulfillment. No thing. And the attempt to find lasting satisfaction, completion, fulfillment, or safety in changing phenomena gives rise to dukkha—mental suffering, and dis-ease—the second characteristic. The third characteristic of existence is that they are anattā, which means “selfless in nature.” Everything is arising due to causes and conditions, and nothing in the phenomenal world comes about outside of the domain of causes and conditions.

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January 9, 2015 | 61 min.

Impermanence, Instability, and Selflessness

Will Kabat-Zinn

One characteristic of all phenomena in this conditioned world we live in is that they are in a state of flux and change. No thing, given its impermanence, can provide a lasting resting place, refuge, or sense of peace and fulfillment. No thing. And the attempt to find lasting satisfaction, completion, fulfillment, or safety in changing phenomena gives rise to dukkha—mental suffering, and dis-ease—the second characteristic. The third characteristic of existence is that they are anattā, which means “selfless in nature.” Everything is arising due to causes and conditions, and nothing in the phenomenal world comes about outside of the domain of causes and conditions.

January 1, 2001

Interview: Practice in Daily Life

Will Kabat-Zinn

On some unconscious level a lot of people think that practice really happens on retreat or that the Dharma is more in one place than another — "It’s really in Asia, or at Spirit Rock, not at home, at work or with my crazy family." But the nature of your mind is no different on retreat than it is in the middle of your workday.

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January 1, 2001

Interview: Practice in Daily Life

Will Kabat-Zinn

On some unconscious level a lot of people think that practice really happens on retreat or that the Dharma is more in one place than another — "It’s really in Asia, or at Spirit Rock, not at home, at work or with my crazy family." But the nature of your mind is no different on retreat than it is in the middle of your workday.